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There will be times where you need to self-caption a project. How do you add captions to your project in Adobe Premiere Pro? What are some best practices when captioning a video? In this video, author Jeff Greenberg gives a broad overview of good techniques to use when captioning a video project in Adobe Premiere Pro.

- We don't always control the purse strings associated…with our projects, and that's where…self-captioning comes into play.…Premiere's tools for self-captioning are really great.…They're a little bit better for editorial,…but when it comes to captioning,…you get into this need for repeating the audio,…and having to type while you're listening.…And I want you to know about a couple conventions,…and then there's a tool I want to point out here.…Good formatting conventions include…the use of brackets for sounds and emotions,…the use of parentheses for character names,…and you'll find that there is a little music note icon,…this is even before emojis, but as I said,…I struggle a little bit with Premiere Pro…for actually generating the captions.…

It's kind of slow and a little clunky,…and for that reason, I'm a big fan…of using another third-party tool.…The third-party tool I wanna mention to you…is a tool called MovieCaptioner.…And what makes it great is you load your media,…you hit a key, and you're listening to a short loop,…

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7/18/2018

Closed captioning is a necessity for some types of content. Even when it's not a necessity, captioning video is beneficial because it allows the content to be seen in multiple locations and by more people. In this course, learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro in your captioning workflow. First, learn about the different types of captions, including open and closed. Next, discover best practices you can follow to help make a transcription process go smoothly, whether you use a transcription service or generate transcripts on your own. Then, learn how to create and format caption tracks and leverage Transcriptive, a third-party plugin that you can use to transcribe your footage. Finally, learn how to export correctly, especially because not every format supports embedded captions.